* Posts by Hugh E Webber

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Electric cars may not be solution to all world problems

Hugh E Webber

EVWorld EVolution Guest Blog answers questions, explodes myths

The ignorance displayed in the above report and most comments is stunning. Don't people feel any need for research or factual citations before they start shooting off their mouths?

I have a guest blog on EVworld as 'EVolution,' that cites studies showing, among other things, that electric vehicles, or EVs (including coal-fired fuel-making,) reduce pollution by at least 95% from levels caused by internal combustion vehicles (and their fuel-making, the production of petrol.)

http://www.evworld.com/blogs/index.cfm?page=blogentry&authorid=83&blogid=223&archive=0

EVs are still in development; we haven't yet seen the EV equivalent of the Ford Model T. The Model T, by the way, broke down every few dozen miles, only went a hundred miles on a tank of petrol (which had to be sought out at feed and general stores, there being no fueling infrastructure,) and had to be backed up hills.

Every argument put forward to show that EVs are not practical went double for the Model T; I guess the buggy-whip makers' arguments against Mr. Ford's threatening new vehicle technology were as unconvincing as those of today's EV-bashers.